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Turbinated   Listen
adjective
Turbinated, Turbinate  adj.  
1.
Whirling in the manner of a top. "A spiral and turbinated motion of the whole."
2.
(Bot.) Shaped like a top, or inverted cone; narrow at the base, and broad at the apex; as, a turbinated ovary, pericarp, or root.
3.
(Anat.) Turbinal.
4.
(Zool.) Spiral with the whorls decreasing rapidly from a large base to a pointed apex; said of certain shells.





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"Turbinated" Quotes from Famous Books



... Sporangia scattered, gregarious, turbinate, short stipitate, blue-gray, about 1 mm. in diameter; peridium above iridescent, green, blue, etc., dotted with minute flecks of white, below limeless, purple or bronze shading to the brown of the ...
— The North American Slime-Moulds • Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
... The palate and fauces may be destroyed by ulceration. In the nose, especially when the ulcerative process is associated with a putrid discharge—ozaena—the destruction of tissue may be considerable and result in unsightly deformity. The entire palatal portions of the upper jaws, the vomer, turbinate, and other bones bounding the nasal and oral cavities, may disappear, so that on looking into the mouth the base of the skull is readily seen. Gummatous disease is frequently observed also in the flat bones of the skull, in the ...
— Manual of Surgery - Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. • Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles


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